In order for my group to gain opinions And criticisms from viewers we showed our film to a an audience consisting of fellow class mates and school teachers in the assembly hall.
The audience were given small pieces of paper and were instructed to note down their opinions on our film stating what they liked or disliked about the film. The sheets of paper were collected by me and my group allowing us to review the opinions given.
A majority of viewers liked our music
" i like the music throughout"
"enjoyed it , muic was good too ! "
and were very impressed with the cliff hanger at the end of our film
" it had a good cliff hanger ending"
Overall the majority of the feedback were positive and felt very rewarding and made me feel that my groups effort put into this film was worth it and lived up to our expectations of it.
What the audience thought
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dat 4 filming
On the fourth day of filming all the characters were on set.
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Idea 2
An idea i have suggested is to leave a cliff hanger at the end of the film to leave the viewers in suspense making them sit at the edge of their seats.
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Film Story line
After conjuring up our ideas together we finally came up with a storyline for our two minute film. Corrine suggested that we should perhaps involve two female characters in our film allowing us to be apart of the acting in our film.
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Treatment posts
1. Is your idea practically possible to film?
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Evaluation
Overall producing my own film was a very interesting and insightful experience. Helping me to understand the film making industry by practicing it first hand and using the latest technological equipment to develop it.
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Problem 2
The area around Turkey street train where we have decided to shoot our film has been temporarily closed and out of bounds to the public because of an incident involving a fatal stabbing :| (*gulp*).
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Group Discussion 3
My group have made the decision that i will be the camera man , this job entails Directing , learning how to use camera equipment and ensuring that i use a wide range of camera movements, angles and shots.
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Seven opening credits 2
I found the opening credits of seven very interesting and it introduced the film in a very captivating way.
The credits display a mixture of scenes of the criminal at work , with the credits shown in a wired type of font flashing and shaking possible reflecting the instability and awkwardness of the siutation that the film is about.
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Group Discussion 2
Before we begin the process of filming my group has made suggestions on who should take on particular job roles for the filming.In order for our film to be successful we need a Camera man to capture the scenes, Two females to play the victims and a male character to play the villan.
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Rough Edit 2
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Rough edit 1
This clip was video recorded on my smart phone then uploaded on to my computer to put on on my blog. The clip shows a van driving past the films villan , then showing the villan suddenly dissapearing creating suspense to the viewer of the villans wearabouts. I am hoping this will have an impact on the viewer making them feel uncomfortable and uneased whilst watching my thriller giving them an experience as if they are involved in the awkward situation unraveling before their eyes.
The car driving past was unintentional but myself and my group loved the idea that it gave us of a disappearing act. Unfortunately i stopped the camera too soon , making the van passing by incomplete , then it jumps to another scene of the phone box being empty.
My self and my group need to find someway of changing this and making this flaw seamless and unnoticeable. I was thinking maybe we could use a series of fast jump cuts to edit it.
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day 3 filming
On the third days of filming a new character was introduced in the filming and this was the villain played by my sister. The costume she wore was mostly the colour black to represent the darkness of her character.
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day 2 filming
On the second day of filming we continued to film the scenes of both victims walking down the road , we ensured that the characters wore the same clothes they did the day before to help with the continuation of the filming.
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day 1 filming
On the first day of filming my responsibility was to make sure that the video camera was fully charged and too bring the other equipment used to film.
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Camera Movements
A pan is a horizontal camera movement in which the camera moves left and right about a central axis. This is a swiveling movement, i.e. mounted in a fixed location on a tripod or shoulder. This type of camera movement will allow me to show the viewer different views of the content within a shot. It would be great to use for an establishing shot showing an overall view of the environment within the scene. It is important that my pans should be smooth and seamless. Zoom Shot Zooming means altering the focal length of the lens to give the illusion of moving closer to or further away from the action. This shot could be used to emphasize the importance of something in a scene of my film by allowing the viewer to see it from a distance and suddenly having a full blown image of it before their eyes , exposing the object or person for all to see. The follow shot follows the subject ot action. The following distance is usually kept more or less constant. This could be done with Hand-held follow-shots , but unfortunately this would be shakey and unsteady. A pedestal shot means moving the camera vertically with respect to the subject. This is often referred to as "pedding" the camera up or down.Here are some camera movements that i would consider using in my two minute film. These camera shots would be great to use because i think they would compliment the genre of my film by allowing to me film my scenes
Camera Pan
Follow Shot
Pedestal Shot
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Problem 1
Unfortunately Corrine's friend is unable to play the villain therefore we have decided to go on a search for a new person to play the part.
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idea 1
I came up with an idea suggesting that my group should film at night time to have an emphasis on the scary atmosphere for the films mise-en-scene. The dark environment will allow the villain to camouflage and become unseen by the two victims , the dark environment will also represent the dark and evil character of the villain.
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Group discussion 1
Before we decided to start filming myself and my group decided to have a discussion about where we should set our film. One of my group mates suggested a park around her area so we decided to check visit the park and we came to a conclusion that the park was not scary enough for a thriller film to be set in.
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Classification of film







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Here are the official bbfc guidelines on classification of films
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Audiences reaction to first draft of two mintue film
Our group decided to show our fellow classmates what we had accomplished so far on the films editing. By doing this we were given an insight on others opinions of our work whilst receiving constructive criticism to improve it also.
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Progress on my two minute film - part 2
Whilst filming our two minute clip , my group and i realized that things would not go according to plan. We made a lot of drastic changes to our original idea along the way and i personally think we made a right a decision.
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Editing our film

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